Document Processing

What Is Document Intelligence? A Complete Guide for 2026

Published

Mar 16, 2026

Author

Dr. Phil Winder

CEO

Every organisation runs on documents. Invoices, contracts, claims, applications, correspondence. They contain the data that drives decisions, triggers payments, and satisfies compliance requirements. The problem is that most of this data is trapped in unstructured formats that only humans can read.

Document intelligence changes that. It’s the AI capability that reads, understands, and extracts structured data from unstructured documents. It is rapidly replacing the manual data entry and basic scanning workflows that most businesses still rely on.